Brothers Across Nigeria International (BAN INT’L), a nonprofit organisation, has provided food items and cash worth N45 million to 145 families of its late members worldwide. Through its welfare arm, the BAN Int’l Outreach Commission (BANOC), the organisation spent over N45 million in December 2024 to support these families, ensuring they could enjoy the festive season despite the absence of their loved ones. Speaking on the initiative, the Global President of BAN Int’l, Dr Anthony Mark, explained that the objective of BANOC is to ease the burden on the families of deceased members, especially during festive periods. “In a…
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US President Donald Trump ordered federal employees of diversity offices to be put on paid leave by Wednesday night, and called a Washington bishop “nasty” after she asked him to “have mercy” for migrants and LGBTQ children. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that US government workers in diversity offices must be put on paid leave by 5:00 pm Wednesday as the new administration moved from day one to shutter programs intended to bolster minority groups. While campaigning, Trump had vilified diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the federal government and corporate world, saying they discriminated against…
Democratic-led states and civil rights groups filed several lawsuits challenging U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to roll back birthright citizenship on Tuesday in an early bid by his opponents to block his agenda in court. After his inauguration on Monday, Trump, a Republican, ordered U.S. agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the U.S. if neither their mother nor father is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident. Twenty-two Democratic-led states along with the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco filed a pair of lawsuits in federal courts in Boston and Seattle…
Turkey has detained nine people in connection with a deadly fire that claimed the lives of 76 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in western Turkey. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya who disclosed this early Wednesday, said that the owner of the hotel has also been detained. Yerlikaya also reported that the bodies of 45 victims had been handed over to their families, while DNA tests were being conducted to identify the remaining bodies at the forensic institute. READ ALSO:Borussia Dortmund sack coach Nuri Sahin after Champions League setback The fire occurred at the Grand Kartal Hotel in…
The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the arrest of a fleeing worker of the Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), Emmanuel Oku, who was allegedly involved in a diesel fraud of ₦740 million. Justice Deinde Dipeolu issued a bench warrant against Oku on Friday after the latter failed to appear in court for trial despite being granted bail. The prosecuting counsel, Barrister M.Y. Bello, made the application for Oku’s warrant after arguing that the Dangote worker had evaded justice. Oku is one of the 11 defendants charged by the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU), Ikoyi, Lagos, for their alleged…
NOW The Rivers State Local Government Election Petition Tribunal has dismissed the petition filed by the Labour Party and its chairmanship candidate, Chioma Chinwo, challenging the outcome of the October 5, 2024, Port Harcourt City council election. The three-man panel, led by Chief Magistrate Menenen Poromon, unanimously ruled that the petitioners failed to prove their case,… 8 mins ago The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Osun State Command said the command found a 15-year-old female child, Quadija Abimbola, wandering at Owode-Ede, Osun. According to a statement issued by ASC Kehinde Adeleke, Civil Defence Public Relations Officer (CDPRO) Osun…
Police in Kenya arrested Wednesday a man found carrying the mutilated corpse of his wife in a backpack, the latest case of gender-based violence to appal the country. It comes only weeks after hundreds of women were tear gassed as they rallied in the capital Nairobi to demonstrate against femicide and demand action from the authorities. A murder investigation has been launched after John Kiama Wambua, 29, was detained by Nairobi police at around 5:00 am (0200 GMT), when a routine patrol examined his bag. Officers suspected the man of carrying illegal goods, but “to their shock discovered part…
Canada vowed strong pushback while Mexico urged calm on Tuesday in the face of US President Donald Trump’s trade threats that risk throwing their economies into disarray. The US president has accused both neighbors of being lax in preventing migrants and illicit drugs from coming into the United States, and called for a tightening of the borders. Hours after taking his oath of office on Monday, he signaled that 25 percent punitive tariffs against the United States’ two major trading partners could come as early as February 1. He also said he would order troops to its border with…
Twenty Ethiopian migrants were killed when their boat from Djibouti capsized off Yemen, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday. The shipwreck on Saturday “claimed the lives of 20 Ethiopian migrants, including nine women and 11 men. The vessel, carrying 35 Ethiopian migrants along with a Yemeni captain and his assistant, departed from Djibouti,” the UN migration body said in a statement. It added the vessel had capsized off Yemen’s southwest Taiz Governorate “amid strong seasonal winds”. Yemen’s coastal waters are among the world’s most dangerous migrant routes, according to the IOM, which documented more than 60,000…
President Donald Trump announced plans to weed out some 1,000 opponents from the US government Tuesday on his first full day in power after taking office with a shock-and-awe blitz of executive orders. Trump was due to meet with leaders of the narrow Republican majority in Congress at the White House as he tries to get his agenda, including tax cuts, approved at rapid pace. In a post shortly after midnight on his Truth Social app, Trump said four people had already been “FIRED!” from advisory roles and made clear they were the tip of the iceberg as…